Quote Originally Posted by jsrnephdoc View Post
Thanks, Shaun

Turns out my local public library should be able to borrow a copy from a University Library several hundreds of miles distant. I'm looking forward to perusing it!

The title is interesting, in that in common parlance a "forgery" is typically understood to be a criminal deceit attempting to claim something was created by someone already recognized as an accomplished artist. My understanding of the Sobieski Stuarts' "caper" mainly was that they claimed their inventions were not new, but rather almost branding of long established families
Forge in this case meaning to produce a fraudulent copy or imitation. The predecessor to the published Vestiarium Scoticum (1842) was not a document of 1725 but an invention of the Allen brothers c.1815-20. There is not evidence that the older Douai Ms ever existed.